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The Revista de Crítica Cultural, under the direction of the academic Nelly Richard, appeared in 1990 at the same time as the return to democracy in Chile after 17 years of dictatorship. This journal fostered incisive critical thinking and was one of the most fruitful non-governmental spaces for reflection, criticism, and proposals in order to rethink and reconstruct the fragmented memory of Chile. The journal focused on the new international conditions that were related to the diminishing of global left-wing movements and to the emergence of a victorious transnational capitalism. In this dissertation, I propose to understand the new codes and narratives that appeared in the Revista. I am putting particular attention to how the journal allows us to better understand the post-dictator period, and also I am exam the journal’s use of post-modernist or post-structuralist modes of thought as tools for thinking about Chile and Latin America beyond the classic notions of identity, people, and
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The Revista de Crítica Cultural, under the direction of the academic Nelly Richard, appeared in 1990 at the same time as the return to democracy in Chile after 17 years of dictatorship. This journal fostered incisive critical thinking and was one of the most fruitful non-governmental spaces for reflection, criticism, and proposals in order to rethink and reconstruct the fragmented memory of Chile. The journal focused on the new international conditions that were related to the diminishing of global left-wing movements and to the emergence of a victorious transnational capitalism. In this dissertation, I propose to understand the new codes and narratives that appeared in the Revista. I am putting particular attention to how the journal allows us to better understand the post-dictator period, and also I am exam the journal’s use of post-modernist or post-structuralist modes of thought as tools for thinking about Chile and Latin America beyond the classic notions of identity, people, and
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